People v. Buenrostro

*372 After a jury found defendant Dora Buenrostro competent to stand trial, a separate jury convicted her of the first degree murders of her children, Susana, Vicente, and Deidra. ( Pen. Code, § 187.) The jury found true three multiple-murder special-circumstance allegations ( id. , § 190.2, *373 subd. (a)(3) ) and allegations that defendant personally used a knife in the commission of each murder ( id. , §§ 1192.7, subd. (c)(23), 12022, subd. (b) ). After a penalty trial, the same jury returned a verdict of death. The trial court denied defendant's motion for a new trial and for modification of the…